the boy, whose first name is ethan, was taken last tuesday after dykes attacked a school bus in search of hostages and killed the bus driver. our coverage tonight starts with mark strassman in midland city for us. mark? >> reporter: scott, over the course of a week of negotiations, the fbi and dykes developed a routine. he would ask for supplies; they would leave them at the entrance of his underground bunker. the fbi's hostage rescue team exploited that routine to end the stand-off. this video is our first glimpse of the dykes' property, the scene of the seven-day stand- off. sources tell us, when dykes climbed the eight-foot ladder to get supplies yesterday and reached up to open the door, he was off-balance and vulnerable. agents believed ethan would be away from the ladder and relatively protected. when rescue team members above dykes saw the door open, they dropped two stun grenades. the noise and blinding flashes disoriented him. within seconds, four team members entered the bunker.

officials believe he fired a shot at them but missed. they returned fire multiple times, killing dykes and rescuing the boy. these recent photos show ethan with his mother. she released a statement of thanks today. it said, "i woke up this morning to the most beautiful sight-- my sweet little boy. i can't describe how incredible it is to hold him again." ethan's relatives say that physically, he seems fine, but they're worried about long-term emotional injuries. scott, his relatives are worried about the possible emotional injuries. he was released from the hospital today just in time for his sixth birthday tomorrow. >> pelley: former assistant director of the fbi john miller, you've been talking to the sources today. what did they find in the bunker? >> they found bombs in the bunker. as soon as the rescue operators were out of there, the fbi bomb technician went in and started a very careful search. they founded a number of crude homemade explosive devices.

>> pelley: any idea what dykes intended to do with them? >> you know, they were already aware of these devices, because they had managed to sneak a camera inside. they had an audio feed so they could see and hear what he was doing. between the hostage negotiators talking to him, the fbi profilers in the background, they were getting increasingly worried as dykes became more and more unglued that he would either booby-trap the only entrance, which would make a rescue attempt extraordinarily complicated, or perhaps blow himself and his hostage up. >> pelley: finally, why did dykes do this, attack the school bus, take the hostages and hold the boy for a week? >> he was a survivalist and anti-federal government activist. he wanted to rail publicly against the federal government. i think he understood, a month- and-a-half after the newtown massacre, that if he wanted to get on the national stage, kidnapping two children off a school bus-- that was his plan he only got one-- and holding them hostage would actually give him a platform where he could go on the media and say his piece. he had actually asked for a tv

reporter to speak to. that's what they were talking about for those days. >> pelley: john, thanks very much. the u.s. justice department said today that it is suing standard and poor's rating service, accusing it of a massive fraud when it gave high ratings to mortgage investments that later plunged in value. that helped fuel the 2008 financial meltdown. investors, including pension funds, lost billions on what s&p told them were the safest bets money could buy. anthony mason has more. >> reporter: as the housing bubble was beginning to burst in 2007, standard and poor's was still giving glowing ratings to mortgage-backed securities that some of its own analysts feared would go bad. attorney general eric holder said today the nation's largest rating agency was knowingly executing a scheme to defraud investors and pump up its profits. >> put simply, this alleged

conduct is egregious, and it goes to the very heart of the recent financial crisis. >> reporter: the government's 124-page complaint cites internal documents, like this instant message exchange between two s&p analysts. "that deal is ridiculous," the first says. "i know, right," the second answers. "model definitely does not capture half of the risk." "we should not be rating it," the first goes on. "we rate every deal," the second analyst says. "it could be structured by cows and we would rate it." the government produced emails that suggest there were people within standard and poor's who thought the ratings were underestimating the risk. >> that's true. there were lots of debates, some of them angry, some of them accusatory. this is a tough time. >> reporter: but floyd abrams, attorney for standard and poor's, says s&p's ratings were identical to the other agencies and to the projections of the treasury and the fed. >> no one there thought it would

be anything as catastrophic as what it turned out to be. but that's not fraud. and it's fraud that the government is accusing us of. >> reporter: the civil suit comes after a three-year investigation. how difficult is this case to prove? >> the burden of proof is lower because it's a civil case not a criminal case. >> reporter: jacob frenkel is a former s.e.c. attorney. >> the fact that they're able to show deceptive conduct, whether it be intentional, reckless or grossly negligent, that's going to be sufficient to establish its case. >> reporter: the government is going after $5 billion in penalties from standard and poor's to cover losses to investors like federally insured banks and state pension funds. >> pelley: anthony, the collapse was five years ago. why did the government take so long to bring a case? >> investigators tell me typically, these complicated cases take years to build. this investigation began in 2009. in this case, the government had to go through 20 million pages

of internal standard and poor's documents. >> pelley: anthony, thanks very much. well, we are about three weeks now from the next washington budget crisis. on march 1, an automatic across- the-board spending cut will hit the federal budget. it's called a "sequester," a term that only a bureaucrat could love. the sequester is designed to get the deficit under control, but economists are worried that the cuts are so deep, they'll trigger a recession. today, the president called on congress to pass a budget package to avoid the sequester or at least delay the shock. >> if they can't get a bigger package done by the time the sequester is scheduled to go into effect, then i believe that they should at least pass a smaller package of spending cuts and tax reforms that would delay the economically damaging effects of the sequester for a few more months until congress finds a way to replace these cuts with a smarter solution.

>> pelley: in an interview on sunday, we asked the president about all of this. we found out last week that the economy actually shrank in the last three months of last year. if the federal spending cuts that are on tap for march actually take effect, will that push the country into recession? >> i don't know if it will push the country into recession, but here's what we know. the reason that the economy shrank a little bit, despite the fact that housing is recovering, manufacturing is going strong, car sales are up-- you know, the truth is, is that, overall there were a lot of positive signs in the economy. the big problem was defense spending was cut 22%. that was the biggest drop in 40 years. it was very abrupt. washington cannot continually operate under a cloud of crisis. that freezes up consumers. it gets businesses worried. we can't afford these self- inflicted wounds. >> pelley: also in that interview, the president said

that he thinks the boy scouts of america should include gays. the organization's executive board will consider tomorrow whether to drop its national ban on gays. and that is creating a divide between a lot of scout families. here's john blackstone. >> boy scout troop leader steve tennant and his 16-year-old son christopher have been involved in scouting for the last five years. they are straight, but don't like the policy excluding gays. >> i have a huge problem with that. >> reporter: what did it feel like when you heard that a local troop had thrown out a kid because he was gay? >> i was shocked. shocked and amazed. appalled. i couldn't believe it. >> reporter: the teen thrown out last october was 18-year-old ryan anderson, who was about to become an eagle scout. >> getting my eagle award taken is totally devastating. hearing that it's happening to other scouts is also totally devastating. >> i can't imagine ever doing that to a boy.

but that's what this policy would have me do. >> reporter: but others in scouting warn about quickly changing the current policy banning gays. kay godfrey is with the salt lake city scout council that has over 100,000 members. >> we were caught completely off guard with it. we've had a policy that's been in place for over 100 years that seems to have functioned, to the most part, soundly. >> reporter: in a letter to the boy scout board of directors godfrey's council urged that voting on the change be delayed. the tennants, however, say a younger generation of scouts is ready to accept gays. >> a 16-year-old scout is going on a camping trip knowing that there might be gay scouts along. does that bother you? >> it doesn't faze me at all. i don't think that there's any reason to be fazed. >> reporter: opponents of the change worry that, as some scout groups accept gays while others ban them, it will cause problems at large group events, like jamborees. there's also concern, scott, that if some scout groups

continue to ban gays, this will open them to charges of discrimination and to lawsuits over discrimination. >> pelley: the proposal on the table for the board is that they would lift their national ban and just leave it up to local troops across the country whether they wanted to have gay scouts or not. how would that work exactly? >> it would be above the troop level, actually. the decision would be made by the sponsoring organizations. and those sponsoring organizations for the scouts include many churches-- the mormon church, the southern baptist church. and many of those groups, of course, have moral objections to allowing in gays. >> pelley: john, thanks very much. a federal prosecutor said today that lance armstrong will not face criminal charges, despite his recent admission that he took performance-enhancing drugs. the u.s. attorney based in los angeles investigated the former cycling champ last year and declined to press charges. he said today that he stands by

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love last year, he was learning how to kayak and that's no small accomplishment because love is a triple amputee. as a u.s. recon marine in afghanistan two years ago, he lost both legs and his left forearm to a land mine. love told us then that kayaking didn't completely satisfy his need for adventure. >> i want to go skydiving soon. it shouldn't be a problem to do >> reporter: he was right. since then, he has done four tandem jumps and hopes eventually to dive solo. and that wasn't the end of his wish list. >> i always wanted to wrestle an alligator. >> reporter: "animal planet" got word of that and invited love to appear on "gator boys." >> you got it. >> the whole time i was kind of thinking, you know, i hope this gator just doesn't get tired of me being on top of him because i'm bite-sized. >> one, two, three. >> reporter: love also recently became a fully certified scuba diver. >> i feel like i can do anything i put my mind to, and for me that's way more than having two legs.

it's priceless. >> reporter: he put his mind to surfing and was doing hand stands within minutes. and he can't get enough of the demolition derby in a car he controls by hand. >> i would say the adrenaline rush was probably the most significant -- >> reporter: the most intense of all your activities? >> yeah, it's up there with combat. >> reporter: his next adventure, going to college. it makes him more nervous, he says, than jumping out of a plane. but he's determined to succeed. you don't spend a lot of time feeling sorry for yourself. >> no. no. i mean, i don't have a reason to feel sorry for myself. a lot of times, no conversation at all, people will come up to me and thank me for my service. i see the tears in their eyes. and there's nothing -- there's

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this afternoon and right now, there's no official word on whether it's a murder-suicide but investigators aren't looking for a shooter. we'll bring you new information if we get any updates during this newscast. new at 6:00, fairfield police just released this picture of a 13-year-old murder victim. this is the last known image of her taken at east tabor avenue and grande circle in fairfield minutes before she disappeared. gennel le conway allen was found dead at allan witt park friday. she was reported missing at suisun city the day before. apparently police will hold a news conference tomorrow to talk about the investigation. a battle between two of america's largest states is under way. on one side, texas trying to lure big business away from california. >> now governor jerry brown is pushing back. don knapp has a look at his war of words. >> coming to california, this is where it is. he is not going to lubbock or wherever the places are that make up that state. so -- [ laughter ]

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